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Perhaps she is an expert on raising young black men to avoid conflicts.

In fact, she isn’t an expert on either.

It was her lack of supervision that put Trayvon Martin in Sanford to begin with. It is 250 miles from where Trayvon Martin went to school and where he encountered George Zimmerman; and had his mother been more attentive to the actions of her son, he might still be alive today.

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I know that is not going to sit well with many people, but there are several facts this woman ignores as she goes around the lecture circuit telling everyone how her son died from racial profiling.

Without that aspect of Racial Profiling, Sybrina Fulton’s gravy train ride comes to a very abrupt halt.

From the testimony in the trial, especially that of Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin appears to be the aggressor, first attempting to first evade Zimmerman, then by actually confronting him, and (by physical evidence of Zimmerman’s wounds) attacking Zimmerman (who, according Rachel Jeantel, was called a “creepy assed cracker”.)

For one, she is being used, or rather continually thrust upon us, as an expert in the field of racial profiling and gun crime.

Second, she is riding a gravy train on her own personal guilt trip for failing her son; and that affects the rest of us.

She is being used by this administration as a means to eliminate Florida’s Stand Your ground law, even though that issue was never brought up by either the prosecution or the defense in the Zimmerman case.

She continues to raise the ugly head of racism in a case where it clearly didn’t apply. And finally, she is attempting to profit from her son, when she wasn’t even the woman who raised him.

We cannot ignore what she is doing; but by examining the facts, her motives, and the reasons why she is wrong, we can prevent others from getting caught up in her spiel.

The bittersweet truth is that we owe both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman the truth.

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